Short Film News (SFN)- The 9th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus’s short film competition has announced the five short films that it will be producing in collaboration with Berlin-Bradenburg and the support of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The theme for the Berlin Today Award 2011 is "You Are Leaving The Familiar Sector" and invites international directing talents to create a filmic vision of a world outside of the familiar. Campus Talents, as well as five producers from the region, were selected to create these films.

150 young filmmakers from 55 countries replied to the Campus' call for entries and submitted project ideas for participation in this year's short film competition round.
15 up-and-coming directors and 10 production companies were invited to a "Producers’ Meeting" during the Berlinale Talent Campus in February 2010.

The meeting gave the directors the opportunity to pitch their film ideas to the producers in attendance, to meet and speak with them individually, and to team up with the right producer for their project. Representatives of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg held a jury meeting to select the following five Berlin Today Award 2011 finalists:

The Ambassador’s Wife by Michael Lavelle from Ireland.

Little Red by Eva Pervolovici from Romania.

The Day We Danced on the Moon by Tristan Daws from UK.

Spoilt Broth by Toby Roberts from UK.

Hackney Lullabies by Kyoko Miyake from Japan.

The next Berlinale Talent Campus will take place from February 12-17, 2011 and the application will be open from July 15 to October 6, 2010.